A01975:697
A guide to go to GodA guide to goe to God
A guide to go to God: or, An explanation of the perfect pattern of prayer, the Lords prayer. By William Gouge, B. in D. and minister of Gods Word in Black-Friars LondonA guide to goe to God: or, An explanation of the perfect patterne of prayer, the Lords prayer. By William Gouge, B. in D. and minister of Gods Word in Black-Friers London
London: printed by G. Miller for Edward Brewster, 1626
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. How can there be a sufficient pattern where there is no trial of Patience, as in heaven there is none? For the Angels and Saints in heaven are not subject to any crosses that should try their patience.
Q. HOw can there be a sufficient patterne where there is no triall of Patience, as in heauen there is none? For the Angels and Saints in heauen are not subiect to any crosses that should trie their patience.
A. This pattern is especially for active obedience.
A. This patterne is especially for actiue obedience.
2. Those heavenly Spirits do many things which they would not but for the will of God. When it is the will of God, the Angels do willingly descend from heaven to earth, 1sometimes to bring glad tidings to the Church,2 and sometimes to execute vengeance on sinners. Yea the souls of the Saints which have been taken out of their bodies & carried into Abraham's bosom, that place of joy and bliss, have been contented at the will of God to leave their glory,m and to return again into their bodies, even asn Christ came down from heaven, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him: and as his soulo after it had been in Paradise